@Gizoid101
I dunno, I did stage select quite often. Though the Chao Garden is just as much of a time sink as the regular game.
I never gave any of my Chao any animals after I saw how mutated they became. Any “mutant Chao” went to the “purgatory” Chao Garden and it was pretty much a quarantine zone. I stuck mainly to the Hero and Dark gardens. I had one Hero Chao named Rascal who had the Dark Chao kind of slasher smile but he was pretty much pure Hero otherwise. He lived a strong 4 years or so, he was amazing. It was a sad day when the Chao gods finally took him.
I’ve had other Chao with interesting personalities, like another Hero Chao named Cyclone who always looked tired, and I think a Dark Chao named Makuta who always seemed to want to drown himself before he eventually learned how to swim. Makuta was a weird little
guy actually I think Makuta might have been a girl…
But goddamn if I didn’t love the stages just as much.